Holy Paladin Gear, Tier Sets & BiS – Legion 7.3.5

This section of the Holy Paladin guide covers everything you need to find the best Holy Paladin gear and Holy Paladin Tier sets. It tells you all about gear: stat priorities, armor, tier sets, BiS recommendations from dungeons and raids, and legendary item rankings. This guide is being updated and maintained by Pelinal. A Holy Paladin for the guild Alacrity. If there are any questions, feel free to contact him on Twitter

Stat Prioritization

Trinkets

As a Holy Paladin, you should always be using Plate armor and prioritizing Intellect where possible. In Legion, the only place where you really have to choose between primary stats is on trinkets. These some of the better trinkets to try to get:

random drop from Argus the Unmaker on Normal or above difficulty. (Antorus the Burning Throne)

from Argus the Unmaker (Antorus the Burning Throne)

from Withered J'im in Azsuna/Nethershard Vendor. (World Boss)

from Mistress Sassz'ine (Tomb of Sargeras)

from Inscription (can be traded)

from The Coven of Shivarra (Antorus the Burning Throne)

On the Vindicaar in Argus sells for 650 which is a great way to get some solid Stat stick trinkets early on. Antorus the Burning Throne trinkets cannot be contained in here.

Ranking trinkets is too difficult with Warforged and Titanforged possibilities, but these are generally the best trinkets given similar item levels. Any World Quest trinket with Intellect and Critical strike will be very good even if it's a lower item level (similar to ).

is slightly ahead of when both are at item level 1000, use untill you can get a hold of as it is rather rare.

Legendaries

For this section I will break up the legendaries into "Classes". Class S represents the best legendaries possible, these are the legendaries that you want to get the most and will have a larger impact on your performance. Class B represent's legendaries that provide a good throughput benefit, but aren't the best. Class C: legendaries represent items that are situational in nature, but provide little, or not benefit in other situations. Class D legendaries are legendaries that are generally never good, and are used more for the raw item level than their legendary affix, It is worth noting that generally speaking all of our "Class S" legendaries are tuned very close to each other, will depend on the rest of your gear. For example if you have the legendary Ring,Neck and shoulders. But you already have a really high item level neck, shoulders will likely be better than the neck. The same goes for if you have really good shoulders already the neck will slightly pull ahead.

Class S:

- This legendary is very powerful due to the raw stats it increases. The short cooldown allows you to line it up with either or . This legendary also increases the healing done of , however the overheal redistribution does not work with or . This legendary can be more fight dependent than the other Class S legendaries, but when you can use it reliably it is just as good, if not better in some situations.

- Gives a sizable shield that can keep you alive through lots of dangerous circumstances. Or reduce healing needed to be done to yourself, thus saving your raid teams mana. This legendary has anti-synergy with and it is not recommended to pair them together. The self absorb is nearly always consumed via 's passive. This combined with the raw secondary stats this Legendary is extremely powerful. Particularly during progression.

- This ring makes and far more potent. This ring must be used with if you cannot use that talent, E.G: fight's such as Ilgynoth it is recommended not to use this legendary.

- is a solid option giving decent throughput and good mana sustainability when paired with . It has an RNG component to it, which makes it slightly less optimal and is taxed heavily thus resulting in lower than comfortable crit amounts. But overall performs well.

- A good legendary that doesn't require any extra thought to receive the benefit. Especially on fights with high AoE damage. The more damage you take the better. This legendary also has great synergy with . These are a solid option as finding high crit shoulders can be difficult given none drop in Antorus.

Class A:

- This legendary provides a sizeable throughput gain when paired with . This legendary can be extremely potent. Providing you with excellet mana efficiency at the expense of some health, a large portion of the damage taken is offset by Leech if you have it. In Antorus the Burning Throne however this legendary loses alot of its value, as most paladins will no longer use the T20 set.

- Very strong increase to Avenging Wrath. This makes slightly better than if you don't have . Also a great legendary for mythic+ dungeons. Worth noting it increases the value of slightly.

- is an average at best legendary, it provides a small amount of throughput though is rather unpredictable in nature. Due to Light of Dawn being a significant amount of healing being the trigger and the 8s duration making it difficult to fit a 2nd Light of Dawn in that window it provides less throughput than ideal.

- is a fairly weak legendary, itll do in a pinch if you get any of the weaker legendarys given the fact you can get it just by clearing Antorus the Burning Throne on normal or above difficulty. But due to how easily obtained it is itisn't exceptional at anything in particular it provides a small HPS gain and has decent stats.

Class B:

- Unfortunately does not provide much of a benefit in raiding due to the high overheal rate of . This item would fall into the Class C: category if it werent for its strength in mythic+. There it can save you from hairy situations relatively frequently. It does provide a decent benefit on long raid encounters due to its mana efficiency.

- Is a decent legendary on fights where you can dispel frequently, unfortunately in The Nighthold there are not many fights that have Dispel effects. This legendary is however great in mythic+ as there are many dispel effects, as well you can use and to proc it.

Class C:

- These boots provide a nice increase in speed, however most of the time gets us where we need to go. We also lose less healing than other healers due to our high number of instant cast short cooldown spells, so moving isn't as harmful to us. They provide little to no throughput gain outside of its high item level and stats.

- This legendary is unfortunately probably the worst one you can get. The 50% increased duration on blessings provides next to no benefit on most raid/dungeon encounters. The 15% max health heal is nice, however due to its lack of beacon transfer and lack of scaling with Mastery and 's high mana cost, means using it for a heal is less healing done, and more mana spent than most of the other spells in our kit.

Using Literendi, Crown Jewel of Silvermoon to its fullestWhen you receive this legendary it changes the way you play to a more rotation based play style. It is recommended that you take with this talent. As if you cast before using the 15% healing modifier will be applied to . This means your "rotation" will look something like - - - (If its available, don't wait for a Literendi use to use Holy Shock, it is still best used off cooldown.). If you do this correctly you should be able to fit in one extra in the window.

Maraad's Dying Breath

With the Tier 20 set bonus from Tomb of Sargeras, this legendary becomes a viable choice as far as legendarys go. This legendary gives us a fair amount of mobility and increases our spot healing capabilities while being a nice increase to tank healing at the same time. The trade-off however is you do a fair amount of self harm, for some players this can be offset (Nearly entirely) with a couple of pieces of gear with Leech on them. This legendary isn't a significant HPS gain over other options, however what it does is amplifys your strengths of spot healing and tank healing while helping extend your mana pool as you cast less Flash of Lights. When comparing this legendary to others in the S class it should be thought of as trading health for mana more so than anything else. As you get more leech this legendary becomes extremely powerful, but it can be hard to find those leech pieces without making huge sacrifices (which generally is not worth it).

To use this legendary to its fullest is fairly simple, as all it does is adds a LoTM to your standard rotation. With the set bonus you want to make sure you use the LoTM during the 5s window from For 5 sec after casting Light of Dawn, your healing spells will transfer an additional 40% to your Beacon of Light target. Now, remember Holy Shock is still a high priority spell, so generally if during this window Holy Shock is already available you will want to use that, and then the Light of the Martyr. If not, Light of The Martyr becomes your priority spell to cast. Ideally you get both a Holy Shock and a Light of the Martyr in the 5 second window, in which order that happens isn't that important.

Similar to using Literendi, you will want to use a Bestow Faith before you Light of Dawn ideally, so that it also proc's during your 5s window.

Recommended Gear

This is a general recommendation for gearing in Legion. With Warforged and Titanforged possibilities, having a set list of items as being "best in slot" is impossible. In almost every situation, an increase in item level is going to be better, even if the stat allocation isn't perfect. Here are some pieces you can try to gear for:

Item

Boss

Location

Helm

Neck

Shoulders

Cloak

Chest

Bracers

Trash Drop

Gloves

Belt

Legs

Trash Drop

Boots

Ring

Ring

Trinket

Trinket

Item

Boss

Location

Helm

Neck

Shoulders

Cloak

Chest

Bracers

Gloves

Belt

Legs

Boots

Ring

Ring

Trinket

Trinket

Item

Boss

Location

Helm

Neck

Shoulders

Cloak

Chest

Bracers

Gloves

Belt

Legs

Boots

Ring

Ring

Trinket

World Boss

Trinket

Item

Boss

Location

Helm

Neck

Shoulders

Cloak

Chest

Bracers

Gloves

Belt

Legs

Boots

Ring

Ring

Trinket

Trinket

Item

Boss

Dungeon

Helm

Neck

Shoulders

Cloak

Chest

Bracers

Gloves

Belt

Legs

Boots

Ring

Ring

Trinket

Trinket

Finding Gear on Wowhead

From simple recommendations to advanced filters, Wowhead can help you find the gear you want.

Item Finder

The Item Finder is a great way to search for gear if you are new to Wowhead's filtering system.

Choose what item category, gear slot, and class specialization you're interested in, and it will return results for you. You can further narrow it down by source--including gear from LFR and heroic dungeons.

Character Planner

The Character Planner returns personalized gear suggestions for you and shows which content has the most upgrades.

Simply load up the planner with you preferred character and it will list gear recommendations in a 20 ilvl range for you. It will also list how many gear upgrades each boss has so you can plan out bonus rolls. Finally, the character planner will perform an audit and let you know if you have any missing enchants, glyphs, or gems.

If you have a character in our Profiler which is great for tracking vanity collections and viewing your character in our 3D modelviewer, you can click on the "Planner" button in the header to access the tool. If you don't, you can just enter your information in at Tools > Character Planner.

Item Filters

Wowhead utilizes a powerful system of item filters to narrow down the gear you need.

On http://www.wowhead.com/items, you can enter in some basic options at the top--the name of the item, its item level, the level the players needs to be. The "Usable by" dropdowns cover factions, class, and role.

The dropdown menu right above "Stat Weights" opens to display a variety of advanced options. These cover the following:

General item info such as Added in Expansion/Patch, BoE/BoP, Unique-Equipped, Class-Specific.

Source: All in-game sources, ranging from raid difficulties to the Black Market Auction House to sold by a vendor.

Miscellaneous: Many of these filters are not relevant to equippable gear such as Crafting Reagents and Toys, but you can filter for items that are currently obtainable.

Once you've selected a filter from the menu, click on Apply filter for search results. You can repeat the process to filter for multiple criteria at once--for example, Agility gear that is found in Mythic Foundry.

Over on the right-hand side of the page, you can select a particular Gear Slot or Quality to narrow results even further.

Finally, you can quickly view a subset of items at once using the Database Menus. Head to Database > Items and mouseover the Weapon and Armor options for quick links to gear arranged by armor type and slot.Back to Top